This book was about a mother duck and her 4 ducklings. Three of the ducklings all swam happily in a row through the pond closely behind but dwadle duckling was far behind splashing and playing as he moved along. His mother kept telling him to keep up but each time he refused. In the end, the family spotted an Alligator and so all the ducklings quickly jumped to their mother for safety. When this happened, the dwadle duckling finally followed and came close to his mothers side for protection.

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